Salesforce.com hosts web services and applications written by thousands of internal developers and tens of thousands of customers to provide the largest business automation cloud on the planet.  The compute infrastructure that enables this innovation and value is evolving to fully embrace lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize.Salesforce is building out our compute infrastructure team to reinvigorate the way we deliver, deploy, operate, secure, monitor, and repair our data centers and the code that runs across them - at consumer web scale.  We are looking to add experienced distributed systems engineers who can step up and own big chunks of that vision.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Eat, sleep, and breathe services.  You have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt,
  • Have strong, heartfelt opinions on CAP theorem, can sketch out four different consistency models on a single napkin and defend each of them, and understand Paxos, Raft, and Zookeeper at an implementation level.
  • Familiarity with crash-only and recovery-oriented software design.
  • Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware.
  • Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple datacenters.
  • Agilista capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops.
  • 7+ years of development experience
  • 2+ years of lead experience
  • Experience with Java and/or C++ in a Linux/UNIX data center environment
  • Experience with Puppet, Chef or Ansible
  • Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service
  • Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
  • Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence